Welcome to Windows 7 Forums. Our forum is dedicated to helping you find support and solutions for any problems regarding your Windows 7 PC be it Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a custom build. We also provide an extensive Windows 7 tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks.

I'm not a big music, video or pic collector. My SSD (128 GB) is divided into 3 partitions (the third is new and for experimental purposes). There is what I call a System partition with Win 7 and all programs. There is a Data partition. To this Data partition, I've placed the majority of my user folders.

If you meant that then you're right.
But you CAN'T clone a partition with win7 standard. If you clone with 3rd party tools or bootable CD (for example partition wizard) you HAVE TO realign afterwards

I would prefer if we talked about 'imaging' in this context. 'Cloning' has a special meaning that does not apply here.

You can image the C partition by itself with Windows imaging provided it contains the bootmgr and no system files reside on other partitions. If, however, your bootmgr resides on a seperate active 100MB partition, that will automatically be imaged too. That makes sense because after a restore you need that partition too.

Some 3d party imaging programs align partitions automatically (if you do it right). Here is the Macrium example: Reflect_v5 (look under Advanced Topics). And I believe that Paragon can do that too. Not sure about Windows imaging. Karlsnooks may know.

Clone Hard Drivehow do you clone the OS disk on to another hard drive. so when it goes bad i have a backup of it thanks

Backup and Restore

How to clone partition E: alone to boot from a new drive?My current HDD holds:
Primary NTFS Partition C: running XP.
Logical NTFS Partition E: running Windows 7.
Remains of a couple of Dell's recovery partitions – primary FAT16 & FAT32.
I would like to transfer only partition E: to a new SSD. And Keep the letter E: on the new drive, for it to work....

Installation & Setup

How do I clone a System Partition onto a new DriveHello,
I recently got a new SSD drive that I was interested in turning into my "System Drive" where I just keep all my system files (and some applications that I want to run fast) so that my boot speed is faster.
So this is what I did:
Downloaded EASEUS Disk Copy
Booted it from a USB...

Backup and Restore

Windows 7 Enterprise Boots to Blank Blue Screen after Hard Drive CloneHello,
I have a Shuttle SB61G2 and I wanted to upgrade the hard drive to one of a higher capacity. I wasn't prepared to reinstall Windows so I decided to clone the hard drive. I used DriveClone XML and backed up the current drive image and restored it onto the new drive. All was successful so...

BSOD Help and Support

How can I clone just my old C: drive/partition onto a new HDD?I have an HP Pavilion drive less than a year old that is corrupt - I recovered the partitions and my data by mounting it as an external and using Test Disk. Boot Sectors are all OK, but the drive failed the self test when mounted so maybe bad sectors; TestDisk says it has Bad MFT and MFT Mirror...